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The moment when the lives of six rowers were changed by one unexpected announcement

JÜRGEN GROBLER had the perfect opportunity to tell me that something was in the pipeline. I wanted to ask his permission to move training around at the beginning of March and had gone to his house one evening. My wife was working late and his was preparing dinner when I arrived. It was like a Mafia movie, with the don in his sitting-room talking business while the wife is out the back making a meal.

After talking over the logistics of me travelling to Geneva in March for a day, we moved on to rowing. Surely the idea was in